A marketing funnel, or purchase funnel, sounds like a complicated thing. But it’s not. A marketing funnel is simply the steps a visitor to your website takes on their way to becoming a customer. Creating a marketing funnel helps you easily visualize what it is that makes a customer become a customer, while showing you where you are spending your marketing budget.
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A/B Testing Ideas
To Simply & Effectively Convert A/B Testing, also called, split testing, is essential for optimization. Maintaining and updating a website is an iterative journey, not a destination. There are always incremental improvements to increase online sales conversions. Additionally, SEO is constantly changing (Google made hundreds if not thousands of changes to their algorithm during 2013). …
How to Do Marketing Reporting
Filling In Your Report Card Marketing, like any job, is a results-based business. If you’re a marketer, you often have a fairly good idea how your digital marketing campaigns are going. From the work you’re putting in and the results you see, you probably know if you’re on track or not. However, that may not …
Filtering Referral Spam From Your Google Analytics
Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees Recently we wrote about referral spam, where we explained how you can stop spammers from clogging up your website’s data. Today we’re going to explain how to start filtering referral spam from your Google Analytics, giving you a clearer picture of your website’s performance. As mentioned in part …
Marketing Attribution Models 101
Creating Funnels, Calculating ROI Whether you work in marketing for a big company or you’re a small business owner, you need to understand marketing attribution. The term might not be as popular as some marketing jargon, but you understand the idea behind it. Marketing attribution is giving credit to the marketing that you think turned …
Measure Marketing with Call Tracking
Attribution, Clicks & Contacts It’s not always clear where a lead comes from. Setting up some kind of lead attribution, especially for digital marketing efforts, is needed to determine what’s working and what’s not. Do you know what caused a lead to fill out a form on your website or call you from their mobile …
Reintroducing Search Console in Google Analytics
In a recent announcement that Search Console will be more deeply integrated with Analytics is great news for marketers and business owners who use data to optimize their website in order to improve its performance.
Enable Google Analytics Demographics
Yesterday’s post shared information about age ranges and mapping them to generational marketing insights. We realized that some folks may want more information on how to enable Google Analytics Demographics on their account. Well this post is for you.
Page Analytics Extension
Chrome’s Cool Tool If you love Google Analytics, you’ll most likely love the new Page Analytics extension. In this post I’ll give you a quick recap of this new cool analytics tool you can attach to Chrome and how you’d use it. First, You Need… For those new to analytics, there are few things you’ll …
What is Google Tag Manager?
Tracking for Intelligence Getting accurate website data is critical for online marketing, from setting strategy to tactical execution. Google Tag Manager enables marketers to reliably capture that information. In this post I’ll explain what Google Tag Manager is and why it can be powerful for the marketing department, eliminates the need for IT coding, and …